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7 October 2005

Dear Colleague,

I am writing to invite You to the colloquium “Textile
Archaeology: New Methods and Approaches to Study and
Conservation”, which will take place at the annual
meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in
Montreal on 7 January 2006, 1:30-2:30pm (You can find
more information about the AIA and its annual meeting
at www.archaeological.org).
The contributions of this colloquium present various
new approaches to the study and conservation of
archaeological textiles. Irene Good (Peabody Museum,
Harvard University) takes up an archaeological
approach in her discussion of some of the results of
comparative investigation of textiles, fiber and
dyestuff data from spectacular articles of clothing
discovered in the ancient Tarim basin burial sites in
China. Textiles preserved as pseudomorphs, mineralized
formations in which metal corrosion products form
casts around fibers retaining their external
morphology and size, present a special challenge to
both, archaeologist and conservator. An analysis of
the pseudomorphic textiles from the Antolian site of
Gordion is presented by Julie Unruh (Arizona State
Museum). Nancy Love’s (Philadelphia Textile and Object
Conservation) paper presents textile conservation
techniques she has developed on the basis of three old
museum collections. Finally, Susan Edmunds’
(independent scholar) analysis and woven
reconstruction of chevron/meander pattern carved on
mammoth ivory artifacts from Mezin, Ukraine, presents
possible evidence for the existence of weaving long
before what is currently believed. The discussant for
the session is Elizabeth Barber.
The last session on archaeological textiles was held
at the AIA twenty years ago and it is time to bring
them to the attention to archaeologists, historians
and philologists again. I hope You will be able join
us for the discussion part of the session. If You are
interested in organizing/participating in future
sessions on textiles at the AIA or other major
scholarly meetings, please contact me.
I also would like to invite You to visit our website
for the new Centre for Textile Research at the
University of Copenhagen at www.hum.ku.dk/ctr . If You
know of any textile-related news (projects,
conferences, books), we would love to hear about them.


My best wishes,

Margarita Gleba
mgleba@...


Edward A. Jolie, MA, RPA - PhD Student
Department of Anthropology, MSC01 1040
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Cell Phone: (775)815-2178

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